Rope-clamp.



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UNITED STATES 'PATENT oEErCE.

WILLIAM A. BOULTER, OF CONGRS, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALFTO JOHN H. STILL- 5 State of.New York, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Rope- Clamps, of which the ollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to rope clamps and 1o has for an object to provide improved lmeans for clamping a rope either to produce a loop Y or to join broken ends.

` t A further object of the invention is to prov1 de a clamp having an interior sinuous pas- ;5 sage in order that the rope may b e firmly e ith these and other objects in view, the

' invention comprises certain novel construcf tions, combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawin s: -F igure 1 represents the improved ro e c amp embodying two clamp.-

ing nuts an .illustrated as used to form a 2 is a view of the improved v. roxfx clamp wit 1 the clamping nuts removed e biting the clamping membersand used to splice severed -ro e ends.. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal, sections` view of the improved rope clamp with rone strands in position. Fir. 4 is a View vin side elevation of a slightly dierent embodiment of the improved rope clamp. Fig. 5 is a view in side elevation of still a diEerent embodiment-.of the improved rope'clamp. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a clamping member embodying the features of the present invention. Fig. 7 is a section through Fig.- 5 on line 77.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The improved rope clamp forming the subject-matter of this application comprises a pair of clamp members 10 ,and 11, ta ered spective y, upon the members 10 and 11 and Specification of Letters Patent.

jf 1 Application led April 18, 1907. Serial No. 368,953.

externally throughout their lengths an pro.

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in staggered relation as more plainl indicated in Fig. 3, whereby the rope is c amped in av sinuous or waved position.' y

T o position the members 10 and 11 longitudinally, one of said members, as 10, is provided with a recess 16, while the other member, as '11, is provided with a tongue or olratent'ea Aug. 4, 1908. I 'fp set 17 which 1s proportioned to fit within the i y rece 16, as shown particularly in Figs. 1 and 2. It is to be understood that the recesses and tongues, shown'at 16' and '17, in Figs. 1 and 2, may be and are usually formed similarlgr upon opposite sides of the device.

Upon the tapered members 10 and 11 are positioned clamping means as the nuts 18 and 19, the former being the nut adapted to exert the greater amount of pressure and being larger while the latter is intended to exert some clamping force but rincipallyl to hold together and in positionv t e smaller ends of the tapered members 10 and 11. Itis,-of

course, obvious that the nuts 18 and 19 will .5, with clam ing' nuts, as 21 and 22, adjust- With the rs ta ered from both ends, as shovim in Fig. 5, t e means as the'recess 16 and ed u on eac end of the device.

tongue 17 will be formed in the center of the device here shown as 16 and 17'. inoperation the ends of the ropes to be united will be' laid beside each other and the clamping members disposed upon the ends with one o the ropes seated in each of the members 10 and 11. Before the ropes are overlapped,

iat a single long nut,

the 'nuts 18 and 19 or the nuts 21 and 22 or the nut 20, according to the particular embodiments of the invention employed, are.

preferably. placed uponth rope, whereupon the clamping members'are 'positioned as Ag3 @j ji l 895,065 Y' the clamping members, a heinz turned with members adapted ,to force the said av.' mem-v a Wrench or any approved innige-ment.` g bers toward each other.

YVhat I claim s:-` y 5f In testimony whereof I affix my signature A ropfclam omprising mlar opposing presence of two Witnesses. 5 clal'nping mem ers, each embodying a recess 5 i WILLIAM A. BOULTER.- upon one side, and comgementary 111g Vtnesses:

member upon the opmsite 51de, and means v ARCHIBALL L. VAN NESS, movable ongltudma ly of` Such' clamplng WALTER A.' VAN NESS. 

